New Australian cinema points toward horror
Since the successes of ‘Wolf Creek’ and the ‘Saw’ franchise, the horror/thriller genre in Australian cinema has reached sufficiently respectable status. Now comes a supernatural college-campus…
Guess that’s why they call it the blues…
How can a perfect love between two people go so wrong? This is the question director Derek Cianfrance explores in the new romantic drama ‘Blue Valentine’.…
Nokia’s nifty new smartphones
If you’re old enough to remember a time before iPhones, then you’ll remember when Nokia ruled the world of telefony. Being one of the first handsets…
Success is just a couple of hundred pages away… apparently
Are you living a successful life? Do you have a clear vision? Do you like your job? Are your relationships thriving? If you answered NO, NO,…
Total New Order and absolute Joy Division
Few bands can keep dishing out compilations of their music while always maintaining credibility and not getting tagged with the criticism of ‘sold out’. The Beatles…
Playing with home interiors
The story of Scrabble is an interesting one where ex-architect Alfred Mosher Butts studied the front page of The New York Times, carrying out painstaking calculations…
Amazing winter menu at Ormeggio at The Spit
Sydney diners are often confronted by the reality that all waterfront restaurants sacrifice quality on the plate for views of the harbour – and patrons paying…
Cooking with zeal
If you haven’t jumped on the MasterChef bandwagon, then we envy you. That show is addictive. But for the 99.9% of newly motivated amateur chefs out…
Oh, you pretty things
The OneWorld Beginner’s Guides series have been celebrated for offering in-depth insights into highly varied subject matter with titles as diverse as ‘Cancer’, ‘Christianity’, ‘Shakespeare’, ‘Magic’,…
Big marks for new ‘Big Love’
HBO’s success series ‘Big Love’ is all about secrets. The reasoning behind the Henrickson family’s deceptive (however fleeting) manner; how they lure the best at heart…
The director that dared to
Dancing close to the fire, Stanley Kubrick never allowed himself to play by Hollywood’s rules. With a career spanning just 16 movies in 49 years, Kubrick…
Arresting poster art
One word: amazing. It’s the only way to describe ‘Emek… the thinking man’s poster artist’, a collection of drawings, sketches, sculptures and paintings by one…
A burgeoning respect for quality street art
Graffiti historian Ket has compiled a collection of the most stimulating and downright awe-inspiring projects from around the world in a nifty little coffee table book…
